Inge, according to the Hervarar saga, returns from Västergötland after three winters to kill Blot-Sweyn and reclaim the throne in 1087.

A similar story also appears in the Orkneyinga saga, but in this account, Sweyn stays indoors and is burnt to death.

It is possible that Inge was not immediately accepted by the stubbornly pagan Swedes of Uppland.

The thirteenth-century historian Snorri Sturlusson wrote in the Heimskringla that Blót-Sweyn had a pagan successor who continued the sacrifices.

According to the Westrogothic law, Inge rules Sweden with virility and he never beaks the laws that have been accepted in the districts.